News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-05-19

country, Yaivo NJ Veesan. In a lecture
he told how the Persian youth was al
lowed to take one kiss from his future
wife on the eve before their marriage,
| provided he could find her in dark
room full of other ladies. The ladies
were silent and sympathetic when he
told how, although he was engaged for
three years, he never got one kiss in all
that time.
ASURPRIsE incident has occurred
in Berlin which caused some surprise.
In one of the principal shops in the Rue
de Leipzig large statue of the Emper-
or was exposed. About midday on the
birthday of the Emperor a horse that
was passing cast a shoe. The shoe went
through the window of the shop and fell
at the feet of the statue. The inhabi-
tants of Berlin have reioiced at this en-
blem of good luck to the Emperor.
A CANADIAN farmer near Luther was
awakened by persons prowling around
| his house. He and his sons arose and
fired shotguns at man they saw. He
ran and was Joined by two men in a
sleigh. One of the horses hitched to the
! sleigh cast shoe. The farmer picked
| it up, and by the aid of the blacksmith
who made it identified the providers, who
proved to be neighbors and who paid
good sum to keep the thing quiet.
INHABITANTS of Northern Idaho are
complaining of the tricks in trade Of the
Chinese. It is said that they mix gold
dust worth So an ounce with that worth
SIG, and dispose of it at the maximum
figure. Besides this, they fail to burn
their fine dust sufficiently, thereby re-
tanning much quicksilver. and also file
up silver dollars and mix the filings with
the gold.
SUED.-A New Haven grocer, thinking
some one was making too free with his
hams, attached bell to one of them,
and when some time afterward he heard
the bell ring, he found a neighbor with
the ham Il his hand. Thereupon he
told the mans wife that her husband
stole hams, and now the pair have sued
him for Islander, laying the damages at
800.
NEAR Oakville, W. T., is the burnt
stump of cedar tree, probably the larg
est on record. 1t is hollow shell, fifty
feet high, eighty-seven feet in circum-
ference, one foot from the ground; sew
enty-three, two feet and q half from the
ground, and fifty-four feet eight inches,
six feet from the ground. The cavity is
twenty three feet at its largest diameter.
APRoPos of the boom in the West, it
is said that eleven years ago woman
bought forty-three acres of land in Pasa-
dena, Los Angeles county, Cal, for $40
an acre. She has since sold off ten acres
in small lots at prices ranging from 81 900
to $13, 600 an acre, and has been offered
$780, 900 for the thirty three acres which
still remain in her possession.
Two attempts have been made to cut
the Ievees on the Mississippi River At
Laconia Circle a negro was caught in
the act and lodged in jail, although
some disposition was shown to lynch
him. When arrested he said that he
was tired of work and wanted an over
flow, as the Government would then dis
tribute rations.
THOMAS WIGHT, of Otisfeld, Me. who
recently died at the age of 80, was called
the most eccentric man in the State.
Some of this reputation came from the
statement that for many years he ate
half pint of wood ashes every day.
They are said to have agreed with him,
for he was never i'll day until his last
brief illness.
DIV. KELLEY and Miss Birdie Smith,
an engaged Idaho couple, snowshoed
their way over eighteen feet of snow
from Sawtooth to Ketchum, dragging
behind them a toboggan on which was a
trunk and bundles with their necessary
wedding outfit. After the wedding they
took the train at Ketchum for Blackfoot.
A DRUMMER travelling through Virginia
threw package that he did not want
out of car window. Some one think
ing the package had been lost from
postal car, picked it up and sent it to the
dead letter Office at Washington. After
a weeks search hepackage was returned
to its original owner.